(Mid-July 2027, XX Group headquarters and its various business groups. The "heatwave" of the dog days of summer is sweltering, and "sparks" are flying in the conference rooms.)
Ever since Li Banjia tossed out the hot potato known as the "Pangu AGI V3.0 Group Promotion and Empowerment Special Action Task Force"—a "six-person co-governance, consensus-based" mandate—the lives of the six "Young Marshal" elites pushed onto this "Crown Prince Examination Stage"—Lin Wei, Sun Qian, Chang Siyuan, Zhang Chen, Zhou Min, and Chen Mo—have been anything but peaceful.
To quote an anonymous popular post on the internal gossip forum of XX Group (codenamed "Forbidden City Pantry"): "It used to be that Chairman Li would torment me a thousand times, and I would treat him like my first love. But look at it now! The old man himself is just sitting on the mountain watching the tigers fight, leaving the 'Six Heavenly Kings' to wrestle and tear each other apart. How thrilling!"
Chapter 172